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Landscapes of Africa: Placemaking, Politics, and Mobility
22/03/2020
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# Landscapes of Africa: Placemaking, Politics, and Mobility
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The African Landscape it's division and cultural heritage has been a common misinterpretation and in circumstantial debate for decades,how the past military and political campaigns have forged the outcome of the modern African landscape and it's urban development is notoriously publishized throughout the Western World,and Namibia where social mobility always seems to bring out a mass protest or occasionally modest civil unrest pays no dividends, while travellers to the Nation are more interested and focused on the wellbeing of Nature the locals have a clearly different outlook on the subject line,the leading government agencies have to juggle multiple scenario's at once to please both parties involved.
# The Namibian Landscape
Namibia has arguably the wildest untapped natural ecosystems in the world with the great Namaqualand at it's feet and the Okavango Delta right on top,with two of the most magnificent deserts on each side the Namib on the West and Kalahari in the east and one of the largest Atlantic coastlines just to top it off,with those unique features come endemic wildlife and plant species not seen anywhere in the world,Paradise to the Wildlife photographer and those of similar proffesion.
# The Regional Placemakers
Africa in its intirity is not widely praised as a place where hard work and ingenuity come in personalized gifts packages and so it goes in Namibia,and local authorities in charged with the task of regulating district development are plagued with frivolous development committee's,where commando type management runs in strick protocol all task are resolved when they reach the critically urgent stage often with health risks and fatalities,the acclaimed taskforce are usually from a completely different upbringing and are unfamiliar to the districts they serve,most of them political appointees assigned to secure the area as campaign post for future rallies rather then to develop uplift the wellbeing of the natives.
# The Political Ideology
The political Ideology in Namibia is the same as in any African country 'segregate and dominate',everything is characterised since your birth you are classed by ethnicity,race,colour and wealth etc the list is endless. the anxiety depression and oppression will eventually get to you as you age and set you on your inevitable fate,the political pecking order is traditionally African,A unorganized essential system in which members of an organization are ranked according to relative ethnic status.The African hierarchy system works strickly the same as a flock of vultures the bigger and stronger eat first then the rest can fight over the scrappy leftovers and on the dark continent those leftovers can be the difference between life and death and that's only in a politically stable African country this are the people who decide which landscapes should be taken as quintessentials and which are claimed as farmland usually set apart for the ruling class and business associates and the wastelands reserved as settlements.
# The Popular Urban Mobility
The Mobility of an average African citizen hasn't changed since the colonial era,most Africans originate from the bottled rural backdrop settlements where they live in unsafe extremely impoverished shacks that are venerable and at the mercy of nature,Thats from where most are displaced to more populated cities usually in biblical exodus style the aforementioned are usually in their late 20's and they emigrate to even worse living conditions,Where they end up in more harsh and unforgiving slumps on the outskirts of the main cities build with makeshift material they conjure up from local dumping grounds and refuge sites.Settling there for their entitity with hopes and dreams living only on what would be called a prayer then at the end of that endless famine and rugged lifestyle they succumb to poverty.defeated and wounded filled with rage,disappointment and depression they move back to the country settlements when they reach the average African life expectancy which currently fluctuates between 39 and 43 to restart the cycle once again,that's if they do not yield to common viruses and diseases that plaque the continent.with that changing the wild landscapes with their makeshift habitats and informal squatting all the same.
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